Thanks for tuning in to the April 2019.

Cuban A probably won't do another one till June.

I'm traveling almost completely through May, although it's getting easier to do these on the road.

Camera quality usually isn't as good, so we'll see what happens.

I, like do anything but be nice to do it with the right equipment.

So look, before we get started, I've got a bunch of things I'd like to tell you about.

I hope that you're interested in them.

The 1st 1 and the artist one, I suppose, is the fact that I'm going to do beat, be debating the renowned Marxist philosopher Slavoj Jack was a very well well known Continental academic tomorrow at the Sony Center in Toronto at 7 30 On the topic.

Happiness, Capitalism versus Marxism We've decided we'll live streaming this event for those who might be interested in watching the events as they unfold.

Tickets for the live stream are available on my website Jordan.

Be Peterson dot com, but I'll put all the proper links below, so if you pick up a live stream ticket, you convey you the debate at any time up to 30 days afterwards.

We're also going to put the debate eventually up on you two, probably within a month.

So if you don't want to watch it live, well then you can always wait.

Watch it later.

But if you want to participate in it in so far as you could do that electronically, then I guess the Livestream idea is the right one.

We thought we'd run it as an experiment.

Anyways, maybe you could have Ah Peterson vs Jee Jek party.

That's the sort of part of your interested in on a Friday night I'd also like to know let you know that season two of the Jordan be Peterson podcast has now started with the 1st 3 episodes up.

Two of them are 12 Rules for Life lectures taken from my tour last year, one of them from Seattle and one from Portland, as well as an interview with General Stanley McChrystal, retired four star general and former Commander U.

S Forces Afghanistan.

We partnered this year with Westwood one largest audio network in the U.

S.

And my daughter Michaela is going to serve his co host.

So hopefully that allowed a little bit of lightness and warmth and a little bit of humor to the part cast.

We're hoping as a consequence of partnering with Westwood one, which also means, by the way, that the podcast will now be ad supported.

Um, that that would help incentivize me to make sure that I got a part cast out every week.

It was a bit haphazard over the last year, the broadcast was generally a lower priority item, and we've decided this year to make it, well, a top priority, or perhaps at least in the top five.

Let's say so, and we hope we'll get higher production quality out of it and be able to find a larger audience.

And so I guess we'll see how that goes.

The initial feedback has been pretty good with a boat 600,000 or so views per episode, so that seems to be performing quite nicely.

So thank you all for that Jordan be Peterson Videos on YouTube, which will also feature most of the podcast content like it has in the past, will remain unmonitored ized as previously.

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Next we will get to the questions, I promise.

I'm going to London in May to celebrate and promote the release of the May 2nd standard paperback of 12 Rules for Life Into the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Indian and other international English markets, not including U.

S.

And Canada, yet preorders of that paper back and be obtained at the penguin website.

I'll leave the links below.

I'm extremely excited.

One of the things I was really excited about this year, you know, I wrote the forward to Alexander soldier in it since abridged Good, I got a cappella go.

So that was That was I was a pretty good honor that waas last week, By the way, in New York, I talked to his son Ignite and we we spent about an hour discussing historical material related to the gulag and that will be released with the audio version, which I've read the forward Asai said.

I wrote the forward and ignite, I believe, read the rest of the audio, but that will be released in audio book form fairly soon.

Along with that interview that was extremely interesting.

He's a very accomplished man in his own right as a pianist and and conductor, and has a very successful international career.

So he has his father's intellect, that's for sure.

So it's really exciting for me, was very exciting for me to do that forward.

But it's, I would say, equally exciting, to have a paper back in the great tradition of Penguin paperbacks, which I've loved ever since I was old enough to know the difference between Let's not let's rephrase that old enough to start to read serious literature.

And so to have, Ah, paperback come out on the Penguin label is Well, I just saw the first copy of it this week.

They send it to me.

It's, um, hard to believe, man.

It's ah, it's Ah, I think I don't even have you think I haven't had that as a dream?

You know, I didn't I didn't think that was.

Was there ever any likelihood of that?

So it's better than a dream come true in some sense, because it's a dream that I never even suspected might occur.

That came true.

So that's good.

Anyways, you can pre order that if you're inclined to, uh, it's discounted price, of course, to the in comparison to the hardcover.

Maybe it bank a good gift for someone you like, assuming you like the book.

So finally, most of the time when I do a Q and A, I want to talk a little bit about two programs that my colleagues and I have developed.

One called self authoring dot com and the other called Understand myself dot com.

And the 1st 1 is a set of writing programs that help you write an autobiography and a description of your present personality and a plan for the future.

And they're all laid out so that doing that is what guided and Scout fooled and simplified so that you don't have to answer the terribly difficult question.

Who was I when I grow up till now?

All as one question anyway.

A lot of people have used the programs.

There's tens of thousands of them now, and we have good evidence for the for future offering program in particular, which helps people make a plan and develop a vision and make a plan for the future that, for example, among college students it decreases their dropout rate by about 25%.

It seems to have, um, aboutthe same effect on their grade point average.

So anyways, these writing exercises, if there's anything bothering you about your past.

You know, you can tell that because you have negative memories.

Let's say of anything that happened to you 18 months or previous shouldn't really mess around with traumatic memories before they're about 18 months old.

But if your past still haunts you, you know if you can't stop thinking about it, then there's there's things that have happened to you that you don't understand.

You don't understand the causal pathways that lead you down, the path that you are now afraid of or regret, and the alarm systems that make up your the the parts of your brain that control anxiety will never let you free of that, because their job is to alert you to danger at past or present.

Perhaps in case you encountered the same situation again, and unless you've come up with an elaborated causal account of what put you at risk, then you're likely to suffer from those anxiety related or trauma related memories for your whole life.

So you can write the autobiography part of self authoring dot com.

It asked you to break your life into 70 parks and write about the important positive and negative experiences in each and analyze them.

I've had plenty of people.

I'm not making a formal scientific claim here, by the way.

But there is good evidence that this kind of writing does help People, uh, come to terms with their past and increase their psychological health.

We haven't done those studies specifically on our program, so I don't want to claim that we have.

But I have had many people mentioned that after completing the past authoring program, AA lot of the things that they had bothered them chronically had begin to recede into the past where they belonged.

So anyways, we're offering those programs the self authoring program you could buy two.

For one, there's a special on It's rather permanent special because it seems to be very popular Anyways.

That means you can buy one for you and a friend, and it's 20% off, and so is understand myself dot com.

That's a personality test that I developed with my colleagues.

That gives you a big five readout, extra version, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness.

I think I got old fart there and 10 of the aspects that make them up, so it's very high resolution personality test and it's been on the harsh side.

It's not designed to make you feel good.

It's designed to actually tell you about your strengths and weaknesses.

And look, man, everybody has strengths and weaknesses.

So you know, if there's a bit that's harsh in the in, the test results don't feel too bad.

It's not like you're alone in that.

Anyways.

The code for the 20% discount is May, and it's valid until the end of May.

And so look these these programs, you know, let's to think about the future offering program.

It's It's really a good thing to have a plan for your life, you know, you're not gonna get what you need.

You want less game addict, and you know that game out, unless you know what it is.

And you're not gonna know what it is unless you think about what it is that you need and you want.

And it's hard for people to do that and we're not trained to do that Doesn't happen to us in school.

Doesn't happen to us and university.

We like the future authoring program and just in the past authoring program and the president of the program they all the clinical evidence about programs like this suggests that they work very well and they're there and you can do them badly.

That's the other thing.

That's kind of cool is you don't have to get all perfectionistic about.

You don't have to write a perfect account of your past.

You don't have to come up with the right plan for the future because you're not gonna anyways, because what do you know about what the future is going to bring?

It's still worthwhile to chart a course, though, you know, because it increases the probability that you'll get what you want.

So you know my my colleagues, Daniel Higgins.

He's at Harvard and or was it Harvard?

He's a Pete, as a PhD from Harvard and Bob Bob Peel, who just resigned or just retired from McGill.

We built these programs over a couple of years along with some of my graduate students, particularly Raymond Mar, and, uh, we think they've been really useful for people.

So, um, and you know what?

We were trying to figure out low cost psychological interventions that could be scaled that would not do people any harm that they could do on their own with minimal administrative overhead and cost.

And so, like that's the philosophy that underlies them so well, that's enough of that.

I should also mention finally, for those of you who might be interested, I was in New York this week.

On Monday, for example, I taped 16 interviews with Dr Oz.

Now there's a man with energy.

I'll tell you, we did that.

I was pretty much fried by the end of that.

His wife, Lisa, who's very bright person and who knows my work very well, asked wrote out all the questions that Dr Oz used to interview me, and they were killer questions.

I had to think about every one of them.

And so we seem to have a good time.

There was a bit of a studio audience there.

They seemed to like the discussion.

And so these will appear as 10 to 15 minute video clips.

Either on Dr Oz is broadcast show or on YouTube or both, and you know it.

Never know they might show up on my channel a swell, but, um, before warned, they're coming and hopefully what did he call them?

He thought it would be useful if there were good 10 minute clips of some of the things that I've talked about for people to access.

And so he's got a nice professional studio, and I like working with him so well, that was New York House didn't talk last night.

Beacon Theatre, um, which was sold out.

So not the third time.

The beacon is sold out.

So I don't know what it is about New Yorkers, but they seem to like to talk about sorrow and suffering and malevolence and Russian Communist camps.

And, well, maybe also the possibility of having a reasonable and productive and meaningful life.

That's really why people are there.

So it was a good a good event, and my daughter, Mikayla, um, opened the show.

That was kind of fun.

And she also did the Q and A because there's a Q and a portion of its that was different.

And it was cute warm as far as I was concerned, and she's kind of funny, and so that was helpful.

A swell.

So anyways, um, uh has a lot of news.

Hopefully, it wasn't too much.

And so now I'll do my best to answer your questions.

I'm out.

No, I guess I'm not quite ready here.

A little nervous about the debate with Jack tomorrow.

I'm not a political philosopher.

You know, It's been a long time since I read Marx reread the Communist Manifesto over the last couple of weeks and tried to think it through.

And so I'm gonna talk to more about the essence of the capitalist floor or the Communist philosophy.

Um, I don't think I've read a book.

Well, we'll leave it at that.

I'm gonna take it apart tomorrow at the lecture, and, uh, I hope I'm ready.

I've got 25 minutes to make my case pretty short.

Shouldn't take a lot of prep time if I'm careful, but I can't waste any of the time.

And and, uh, I really like to do a good job because I think it's an important debate.